ESPN recently re-aired the E:60 episode featuring the segment on the South Africa’s shameful exercise of corrective rape. In this heart-wrenching episode, show host Jeremy Schaap interviewed South African women soccer players
about the heinous practice aimed to punish a lesbian and “correct” her sexuality. Many of South Africa’s women soccer players are openly gay despite the country’s lax attitude toward gay-fueled crimes and few legal protections afforded its victims.

These brave women fought back tears at times as they retold their personal corrective rape experiences as well as the stories of those who didn’t live to tell their own.